Destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy
HMCS Saguenay underway in 1981
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History |
Canada |
Name | Saguenay |
Namesake | Saguenay River |
Builder | Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax |
Laid down | 4 April 1951 |
Launched | 30 July 1953 |
Commissioned | 15 December 1956 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1990 |
Reclassified | 14 May 1965 (as DDH) |
Identification | Pennant number: 206 |
Motto | A 1'erte (Ready to act)[1] |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1939–42[1][2] |
Fate | Sold in 1990 and scuttled as an artificial reef off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. |
Badge | Sable, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, surmounted by an Indian's head facing sinister and couped at the shoulder proper having a fillet gules about the temples, depending there from, tips downward, four feathers of the second pied of the last, and pendant from the ear an annulet silver.[1] |
General characteristics |
Type | St. Laurent-class destroyer escort |
Displacement |
- As DDE:
- 2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load)
- As DDH:
- 2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load)[4]
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Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
Draught |
- As DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m)[3]
- As DDH:14 ft (4.3 m)[4]
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Propulsion | 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 22,000 kW (30,000 shp) |
Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[3] |
Range | 4,570 nautical miles (8,463.6 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement |
- As DDE: 249
- As DDH: 213 plus 20 aircrew
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Sensors and processing systems |
- As DDE:
- 1 × SPS-12 air search radar
- 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar
- 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
- 1 × SQS-10 or −11 hull mounted active search and attack sonar
- 1 × SQS-501 (Type 162) high frequency bottom profiling sonar
- 1 × SQS-502 (Type 170) high frequency Limbo mortar control sonar
- 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone
- 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 2 on-mount SPG-48 directors)
- As DDH:
- 1 × SPS-12 air search radar
- 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar
- 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
- 1 × URN 20 TACAN radar
- 1 × SQS-10 or −11 hull mounted active search and attack sonar
- 1 × SQS-501 (Type 162) high frequency bottom profiling sonar
- 1 × SQS-502 (Type 170) high frequency Limbo mortar control sonar
- 1 × SQS-504 VDS, medium frequency active search (except 233 after 1986)
- 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone
- 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 1 on-mount SPG-48 director)
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
- As DDE:
- 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)
- As DDH:
- 1 × WLR 1C radar warning
- 1 × UPD 501 radar detection
- 1 × SRD 501 HF/DF
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Armament |
- As DDE:
- 2 × 3 in (76 mm) Mk.33 FMC twin mounts guns
- 2 × 40 mm "Boffin" single mount guns
- 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
- 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes
- As DDH:
- 1 × 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount gun
- 1 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar
- 2 × triple Mk.32 12.75 inch launchers firing Mk.44 or Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
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Aircraft carried | |
Aviation facilities |
- As DDH:
- 1 × midships helicopter deck with Beartrap and hangar
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HMCS Saguenay was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956–1990. She was the second vessel in her class and the second Canadian naval unit to carry the name HMCS Saguenay. After being discarded by the Canadian Forces, the ship was sunk as an artificial reef off the coast of Nova Scotia.
- ^ a b c Arbuckle, p. 105
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- ^ a b Blackman, 1964
- ^ a b Sharpe, p. 84